Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-05T01:09:53Z

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:52 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>of this code. I have apps written for Windows in 1990 and 1998 that
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>>still run on Windows XP today. Linux has no such concept of
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>But this not even holds for nearly all apps.
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>>backwards compatiblity. Every company who has embraced it outside of
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>The same holds (probably) for Linux apps (given that your kernel can
>start a.out). And AFAIBT by Win* driver developers even in the Win*
>world you have to change your driver because of a new Win* version now
>and then.
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> Bernd
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No. BIND was has been busted between 2.4 and 2.6. Not to mention the
whole libc -> glib switchover.
It's hilarious that BSD had to create a Linux app compat lib, and the
RedHat shipped compat libs for 3 releases
as well. Not even close. Windows has won. M$ has won. Linux lost
the desktop wars and will soon loose
the server wars as well. The reason - infighting and lack of backwards
compatibility. Binary only module
breakage kernel to kernel will continue.

Jeff